Lucky Dog Audio Post

He's the Jan Gardner Memorial Award for Outstanding Radio Copy awarded to our agency compadres at Red Deluxe at this year's Memphis ADDY awards. Check out these two spots from their award winning Memphis Grizzlies radio campaign starring our voice talent compadre Big Lou Johnson.

Listen to "Greetings" :60

Listen to "Game Night" :60

PS. I photoshopped a lucha libre mask on our Soderberghicon. Did you notice? Yeah? You did? Well... no. I used the scale and distort tool. Really? Oh. I didn't know you could do that. Well.. I think it looks fine. You get the idea anyway. OK. Next time I'll try that thing you were talking about. K. Thanks.

Soderberghicons be praised, our friends at Eric Rob & Isaac won a Gold Addy (one of many at this year's Arkansas ADDY Awards) for the Goldman Recycling radio campaign they produced here with us. Congrats y'all!

Listen to the radio:

Support Group

Landfill RollCall

Landfill, Part II

Congrats to Zehnder Communications for winning Best of Show Overall this year at the Baton Rouge ADDY awards. Huzzah! One part of this campaign was the following handsome video with music, announcer VO, and audio mix provided by your's truly, Lucky Dog Audio Post. Which means it's time, once again, to whip out the Soderberghicon. Now... where is that thing?

EBR - We'll Make You Think from Zehnder Communications on Vimeo.

Here's a batch of TV spots we helped Archer Malmo produce for YMCA Memphis. We beefed up the nat sound for these, added the intro and outro music cues and recorded the voice over tag at the end.

The monochrome to color transition in these spots is rad. When I first saw the bicycle spot I was struck by how cool the guy looked in the opening shot. Classic nose room. Dig.

I liked the opening music Scott found for these spots. The bells in the drone remind me of Dok.

The graffiti spot also has an arresting opening shot. Plus I like the way that the text appears on the same wall that the kid is spray painting. Cool play on the graffiti idea.

Yeah. We cast and recorded these elves. The biggest challenge was finding an elf with a Spanish accent. It's hard enough to get elves in the booth this time of year but finding a Spanish elf who also had time for a VO session! Dang. That took a couple of calls. A Red Deluxe production, animation from Miracle Studios.

This past month we did the sound design for this bumpin' ASU promo that ran on ESPN2 during the ASU / ULM game on October 19. Scott did some really rad sfx work to create the ratcheting sounds that mark the Transformers-ish action early in this video. Without giving too much away I'll just mention that guns were involved and leave it at that.

Speaking of sports and sound design, have you seen the Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No video produced by No Mas???!!! Yowza! First off, it's an amazing story. But this video is the stuff! Great animation, killer song and some supa-clever sound design. The phone sounds are brilliant. Dig it! Wish I could say this was one of ours. Envy, thy name is Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No.

The assignment: write and record a school song/national anthem for a sports team that sounds like a huge men's chorus. Demo it up in less than a week.

We really had fun doing it. We listened to a lot of school songs. Sellout came up with the composition. Singers were hired. We had a concert band standing by to replace the demo instruments. But as is often the case, now it's dead. And while we can't share the whole thing with you, here's a little taste.

Stay with it. Behind-the-scenes with singers can be a little scary. And yes, that hat I'm wearing makes me look like a itinerant NASCAR fan.

Our pal Tara at Third Degree Creative just posted a nice piece on her blog about a spot we produced last week. As she points out, the casting on this spot was too good to go without comment. Anyway I'll let her post explain why Angel Tolentino was the perfect actress/artist for this spot.

Third Degree Creative: Good Things Come In Pairs via kwout

Tara's posts are always superb - great writing and awesome photographs. For this post she uploaded example's of Angel's art and even gave the script a mini-makeover (i.e. we didn't get pink scripts for the session). The only thing she left out was the radio spot itself. So here ya go — hat's off to both Angel and AJ Parker for their work on this dialogue-driven radio spot:

One of my favorite bits of the job is working with actors: finding a character, creating an emotional context, honing a performance. Occasionally we get to put that aside and simply work with un-narrated visuals, like this piece for Intake Studio.

And you know what? That's darn fun too.

Another in the "Recent Work" catagory:

This spot makes me smile. Friendly VO, nice music and sound effects work that celebrates the playful vibe of the visuals. After trying several approaches on the car sound, we decided that the toy-box look needed a toy-box sound. Foley lip-buzzing by yours truly, modded with a "bubbly" vocoder effect.

For more, (and certainly more coherent,) behind the scenes commentary, see our friends at Third Degree.